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I've brought up Kali a few times on HN and never had anyone say they used it too. Glad to finally see another person! What an amazing piece of technology. I used it to play a modded version of Diablo's expansion Hellfire, which without Kali was single player only / LAN with a little hack. There was a great little community on that app.

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Yes, the world (and the net) seemed much smaller back then. My first real taste of multiplayer like that (not counting LAN parties) was playing 4 player doom over modem... it required some expensive hardware and software back in the day. I even paid long distance to do it. The BBS running it had to have a special dongle and then the APCiDoom software. Man that was cool.

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I used Kali too, for Descent and other games. The chat rooms were true communities, probably one of the first times as a kid that I connected with other like-minded people (aka nerds).

There was also Kahn, which was a similar competitor.

I remember playing Duke3d over the internet. I was completely giddy as me and my friends all flew around with jetpacks on trying to kill each other with pipebombs.

The downside was that those games were obviously not optimized for internet latency and there wasn't much you could do about it. But I definitely had a blast.

I was also one of the Kahn developers back in the day, before I worked on D3. :)

I used Kali as well. Mostly for Warcraft 2. This must have been before Battle.net.

That’s how a lot of people got started with Kali! It was bundled with the original WC2 CD. WC2 didn’t support battle.net until much later, as Diablo was the first Blizzard game to use it.

I used to work with Jay. He had a consulting gig at my job "for the insurance." Intense dude.

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